I’m undertaking creating a gamified chore list for my family. With zero experience in games, what’s a good way to get started with animating sprites and such? Ideally I want to write the “business rules” and user interface in my language of choice (ClojureScript), but I want something I can easily express art to draw and animate little sprites (like Adobe Photoshop). Suggestions?

This looks great, thanks!

Another option could be using CSS animations. For examples, you can take a look at this amazing youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/keyframers

One thing I really, really appreciate about Adobe Photoshop is that the tools fit the shape of the problem (at least, for the expert designer - maybe not so much for the beginner like me, but that’s mostly an imagination/vocabulary problem). The thought of using code to animate stuff seems really intimidating, because it seems so far removed from the actual work/problem.